Oh, and remember, if you’re a reader of the unfinished Martin series and you’re upset at the extremely slow pace at which he writes (two wars were begun between book three and four) then keep it to yourself lest you face the wrath of Neil Gaiman. (from wheom the title of this post was taken…)

My first thought was that this was a reference to George Broussard… who, you may remember, had an ad campaign running up to the release of Daikatana consisting of the phrase “George Broussard is about to make you his bitch”.

And since Duke 4Ever’s company “3D Realms” closed recently (as in last week recently), I thought that this was kind of a shout out to that.

But yeah, great news that the pilot is going forward. “Gripped with excitement and trepidation” is about right… it would be all trepidation if the networks or a lesser cable channel were doing the adaptation, but with HBO you gotta believe there’s a fighting chance that they’ll create something truly great.